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On 9 December 2008 the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) approved the establishment of the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (file 2008/3687). On 3 February 2009 the Academic Board noted this establishment (resolution AB09/4). The main aim of the Centre was to develop and improve innovative execution skills in Australia - along with entrepreneurial leadership skills - for students, faculty members, alumni of the University of New South Wales and the general entrepreneurial public. The Centre was located in the Australian School of Business with Chris Witt as the initial director (file 2008/3687). In 2010 the director of the Centre remained Chris Witt. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 09/12/2008-

On 1 September 1998 the Academic Board resolved to advise the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research & International) that the Board supports the establishment of a Centre for Tourism Policy Studies (resolution AB98/96). This was approved by the Vice-Chancellor on 19 October 1998. The main role of the Centre was to identify opportunities for research and funding from outside the university to encourage and assist staff across the university, and particularly within the Faculty of Commerce & Economics, to incorporate tourism related work into their research programs. The Centre was located in the Faculty of Commerce and Economics and Associate Professor Ray Spurr was the initial Acting Director (file 981376). On 30 January 2004 the Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Economics advised the Office of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) that the Centre would be closed on 13 February 2004 (file 981376). Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 19/10/1998-13/02/2004

On 1 August 2000 the Academic Board recommended to the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) that the Centre for Business Dynamics and Knowledge Management be established in the University College, Australia Defence Force Academy (resolution AB00/64). This was approved by the Vice-Chancellor on 7 August 2000. The main focus of the Centre was the development of a strategic enterprise modelling framework, based on the Balanced Scorecard performance management paradigm, underpinned by system dynamics modelling theory and practice, and drawing qualitative and quantitative data from enterprise data warehouse and competitive business intelligence systems. The first director of the Centre was Keith Linard (file 001860). On 8 April 2002 the Acting Vice-Chancellor approved the disestablishment of the Centre effective from 30 June 2002. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 07/08/2000-30/06/2002

On 6 October 1998 the Academic Board recommended to the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) that the Australian Centre for Construction Innovation (ACCI) be established in the Faculties of the Built Environment and Engineering (resolution AB98/116). This was approved by the Vice-Chancellor on 2 February 1999. The first director of the Centre was Associate Professor Marton Marosszeky. The Centre was to build upon the achievements of the Building Research Centre, which [was] subsumed into the new structure. The main purpose of the Centre was to: - conduct independent and collaborative research into construction processes and techniques - develop new tools for construction planning and process control and management - develop interdisciplinary links, drawing together academics researching aspects of construction throughout UNSW - network with researchers in other universities and encourage collaboration between them and industry - communicate the outcomes of the research to industry through workshops and short courses (file 981602). On 19 December 2003 the Vice-Chancellor approved the disestablishment of the Centre (file 2003/3145). Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 02/02/1999-19/12/2003

The Department of Computer Science became the School of Computer Science and Engineering on 1/1/1991 with Professor John Hiller becoming the first head of school. Council at its meeting on 10 December 1990 resolved by CL90/108 (v) Proposed division of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science into two schools: 1. That a School of Computer Science and Engineering be established in the Faculty of Engineering from 1 January 1991; and 2. That the School of Computer Science and Engineering be based upon the present Department of Computer Science in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; 3. That the balance of the existing School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science be renamed the School of Electrical Engineering. Computer Science was established as its own school to give the Department greater academic, financial and management autonomy in order to pursue its range of academic interests and enterprises. Computer Science was by far the largest department within the School of Electrical Engineering and was teaching over half of the student load. Its student body was comprised not only of students of the Faculty of Engineering but also of the Board of Studies in Science of Mathematics. Staff of the Department of Computer Science felt the need for greater autonomy and thought that other departments of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science could feel stifled and constrained by the needs of the Department. Growth in computer engineering and the graduate teaching and research areas of the Department was certain and the Department would be larger than many schools in the university. The range of its activities and interests and the discipline of computer science had grown rapidly and the Department also was active in areas not especially closely related to electrical engineering, eg psychology, philosophy, computer literacy, and other areas of cognitive science. One of the largest schools of its kind, in 2004 research was grouped in the following areas: algorithms, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, computer architecture, computer systems, database systems, networks, and software engineering. That year the school attracted over $4.5 million in research funding including Australian Research Council grants and grants from industry, both local and international. The school at that time was also partner in a number of external research centres including the Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre, and the national ICT Australia (NICTA), a research Centre of Excellence in Information and Communications Technologies. In 2008 the School of Computer Science and Engineering and the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications had joint responsibility for the curriculum of the Computer Engineering program. Staff of the school was grouped into research groups of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Systems and Software Engineering. Courses in these areas were offered to students taking major studies in computer science or computer engineering, while introductory-level computing courses were available more generally to students studying Science, Arts or Engineering. Computer science had links with discrete mathematics, which furnished the theory behind the algorithms that computer software implemented, and electrical engineering, which supplied the then present technology underlying physical computing devices. Graduate employability was enhanced by CSE's strong and growing industry links. The Computer Science degree had a Co-op Scholarship program that gave students extensive industry experience from their second year; all Engineering degrees required industrial training experience. The School ran an Industry Liaison Office whose primary aim was to link students and employers both for in-course experience and for graduate employment. The head of school in January 2008 was Professor Paul Compton. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 01/01/1991-

On 7 May 1996 the Academic Board gave its approval for the establishment of a Centre for Olympic Studies (resolution AB96/25). The first director was Associate Professor Richard Cashman. Although the faculties of Arts & Social Sciences, Built Environment, COFA, Commerce & Economics and Professional Studies had all given their support to the proposal, the centre appears to have been administratively primarily centred in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences. The Centre for Olympic Studies (COS) was launched on 21 May, 1996 by the Vice-Chancellor. Its aims were: - To coordinate and publicise university research and teaching on the Olympics - To ascertain areas where the University can assist in the successful organisation of the Sydney Olympics - To create contacts with academic institutions and with industry and government in the area of the Olympics - To develop Centre projects and to support consultancies by University staff to enable the Centre to become self-funding - To project the University's involvement in the Olympics, and other similar international events, as a form of community service - To gather information about the organisation of the Sydney Olympics, and other major international events, which will provide a research data base to assist in the organisation of similar future events In 2003 UNSW introduced a new policy that no Centre can exist on a continuing and permanent basis. It was deemed by UNSW that having contributed to research on the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Centre should cease to operate effective 31 March, 2004. The School of Leisure, Sport & Tourism at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) did, however, take over some of the work of the UNSW Centre, including the web site, library and archival collection. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 07/05/1996-31/03/2004

On 1 June 1998 Council gave its approval to the merger of the AGSM with the University of Sydney's Graduate School of Business to form a new Australian Graduate School of Management as a joint venture between the two universities, effective from the first academic term in 1999 (resolution 98/38). Consequently, on 18 January 1999 the Chancellor's Committee of Council noted that the original company AGSM Limited has changed its name to AGSM Consulting Limited and that a new joint venture company has been formed entitled AGSM Limited (resolution CC99/3). The new company was registered on 3 November 1998 and so came into being from this date (file 981816). The first meeting of the new company's Board took place on 5 February 1999, with Mr David Hoare as the foundation chair (file 00610). In 2008 the Chair of AGSM Ltd was Vice-Chancellor Professor Fred Hilmer. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 03/11/1998-

The Biomedical Engineering Centre is of a multi-disciplinary nature. During 1973 several committees were concerned with the drafting of a proposal to establish a Centre for Biomedical Engineering within UNSW. As a result the university submission made to the AUC refers to this centre as one of the few major development projects proposed for the 1976-1978 Triennium. The university's activities in this area had steadily increased involving staff from the faculties of Medicine, Applied Science, Biological Sciences, Science and Engineering. Academic staff members felt at the time that the existence of such a centre as a formally established entity would help those involved to attract funds from outside sources. The centre was seen as providing a consolidated foundation for work in this area by conducting and sponsoring research; establishing postgraduate programs; sponsoring the development of appropriate undergraduate subjects; and organising conferences, meetings and discussions on biomedical engineering. On 27 August 1974 the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Myers, agreed to the informal establishment within the university of a centre for biomedical engineering and to the establishment of a management committee under the chairmanship of Prof Svensson. The committee comprised Profs NL Svensson (Mechanical Engineering), Chairman, R Huckstep (Orthopaedics), Drs J Loughman (Anaesthetics), M O'Rourke (Cardiology), P Farrell (Chemical Engineering), and Mr P Bason (Electrical Engineering). One of ithe committee's briefs was to plan the future structure and functions of the centre. The Vice-Chancellor provided initial funding of $750 for use by the centre in 1975 with the expectation that the various participating faculties would take over full responsibility for the associated costs in subsequent years. The centre had the support of the deans of the faculties of Biological Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. The major activities of the centre fell in the areas of teaching, research and clinical application. On 24 September 1976, after consideration of the management committee's proposals, the Vice-Chancellor formally approved the establishment of the Centre of Biomedical Engineering in the University of New South Wales as a centre for interdisciplinary studies and developments involving engineering, medicine and the biological sciences. He also approved the management structure of the centre involving an Advisory Board to be responsible for the overall operating policy of the centre and a Management Committee to be responsible generally for the execution of policy objectives, for the control of the staff and financial management of the centre and for the proposals of further research and development projects. In 1977 Professor Peter Farrell was appointed Director of the Centre of Biomedical Engineering. Growth of the centre was rapid. Within a few years the centre had attracted considerable interest in its research activities and received extensive funding from industry, government and private research foundations. Its international reputation in artificial organs research meant that already in 1979 most of its funding for artificial organs research came from sources outside the university (AMA Gazette, 19 July 1979). In 1980 the centre offered postgraduate programs in biomedical engineering for students with either an engineering/ scientific or medical background; it also co-ordinated biomedical engineering research in schools of the university and in hospitals in biomechanics, medical instrumentation, cardiology, physiology and rehabilitation engineering. The centre's growth and success meant that in 1980 it was suggested by senior staff that the Centre for Biomedical Engineering should be located within a faculty to put on it on a more permanent footing. The faulty of Engineering, which had coordinated all the centre's activities since its establishment, was suggested as an appropriate home. In 1981 the centre became a faculty unit within the faculty of Engineering. The position of Director, Centre for Biomedical Engineering in the faculty unit, faculty of Engineering, was established and Professor Peter O'Farrell was seconded to that position effective from 8 May 1981. Administratively within the faculty the unit operated and was treated like any other school. A review of research centres at UNSW by Professor Alan Gilbert in 1990 defined the role of research centres at the university. The Centre for Biomedical Engineering lay outside the guidelines of research centres in respect to the teaching function it provided. Resulting from this the centre sought to have its name changed to the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering. At its meeting on 5 July 1994 the Academic Board resolved that it be recommended that Council approve the proposed change of status of the centre. Council at its meeting on 29 August 1994 resolved as follows: (CL94/72)(b) That Council approve the proposed change of status of the Centre for Biomedical Engineering to the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering. The head of school in 2008 was Associate Professor Anne Simmons. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - in year of 01/01/1974-

The Faculty of Business was established by Council on 3 July 2006 (resolution CL06/68), as a result of the proposed disestablishment of the Faculty of Commerce of Economics and the Australian Graduate School of Management. The inaugural meeting of the faculty took place on 23 November 2006, with Professor Alec Cameron as Dean. On 18 June 2007 Council noted the renaming of the Faculty of Business to the Australian School of Business at UNSW, as approved by the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and President of the Academic Board (CL07/33). In 2007 the faculty was comprised of the Australian Graduate School of Management, School of Accounting, School of Banking & Finance, School of Business Law & Taxation, School of Economics, School of Information Systems, Technology & Management, School of Marketing, School of Organisation & Management, School of Strategy & Entrepreneurship, the Industrial Relations Research Centre and the Korea-Australasia Research Centre. On 2 July 2014 the Vice-Chancellor's Advisory Committee approved a change in name of the faculty to the UNSW Australia Business School, effective from 23 July 2014. Subordinate agency: School of Accountancy (1955 - 1988) / Accounting (1988 - ) - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Department of Marketing (1966 - 1970) / School of Marketing (1970 - ) - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: School of Information Systems, Technology and Management - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Korea-Australasia Research Centre (KAREC) (2000 - 2011) / Korea Research Institute (2011 - ) - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: School of Organisation and Management (2004 - 2011) / School of Management (2012 - ) - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Centre for Applied Marketing (CAM) - 23/11/2006 - 30/09/2007 Subordinate agency: School of Economics - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: School of Strategy and Entrepreneurship - 19/03/2007 - 31/12/2011 Subordinate agency: Actuarial Studies Unit - 23/11/2006 - 31/12/2011 Subordinate agency: Centre for Pensions and Superannuation (CPS) - 23/11/2006 Subordinate agency: Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) - 09/12/2008 Subordinate agency: Australian Institute for Population Ageing Research (AIPAIR) - 04/01/2007 Subordinate agency: Centre for Corporate Change - 23/11/2006 - 30/06/2007 Subordinate agency: Australian School of Taxation and Business Law - 01/01/2011 Subordinate agency: School of Banking and Finance - 03/11/2006 Subordinate agency: School of Business Law and Taxation - 23/11/2006 - 31/12/2010 Subordinate agency: School of Risk & Actuarial Studies - 01/01/2012 Controlling Organisation: UNSW - c. 03/07/2006-

On 26 June 1991 the Vice-Chancellor's Advisory Committee gave its approval to the creation of an Aboriginal Research and Resource Centre (ARRC). Mr Paul Behrendt was appointed as Acting Director of the Centre, before becoming permanent soon afterwards (file 911099). The mission of the Centre was to support research and teaching on matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The initial proposal had indicated that the Director was to be responsible to the Presiding Member of a specialist Management Committee for the Centre (file 911099), however at the Budget Advisory Group meeting on 29 September 1992 the Vice-Chancellor approved a move in administrative line of responsibility for the ARRC to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic Affairs) (file 2002/2147). On 12 December 1994, following a review of Aboriginal education at the university, the Vice-Chancellor indicated that the ARRC...from 1995 will be incorporated, as a Centre, into the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (file 940554). On 5 August 2003 the Academic Board endorsed the establishment of the Program Centre for Indigenous Support and Aboriginal Studies, which would combine the operations of the Aboriginal Education Program and the ARRC (resolution AB03/33). On 30 September 2003 the Vice-Chancellor approved this recommendation, with the Centre beginning operations from 1 January 2004 and so the ARRC effectively ceased to exist from this date (file 2003/1745). Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 26/06/1991-31/12/2003